Mistakes We Never Made

Content Warning: This section contains includes discussion of racial discrimination.

At the Eiffel Tower reproduction in Las Vegas, Emma meets Finn. She feels like, for this one dinner, she can prioritize herself. They take a selfie because Emma remembers that they need to lure Sybil to them. They go to dinner, and Emma makes jokes about the boxing match. Finn says he hates boxing because it makes him think about the fights he got into the fall before and after his dad passed away. Finn is identified as biracial, with one Black parent and one white parent, and he was sometimes subject to racist assumptions in this era. In one case, a police officer took him but not the white person he was fighting with to the police station. Emma holds his hand as he tells her this story, saying that they’ll be on their way back to Los Angeles with Sybil before the fight begins.

They talk about Finn and his mom, who is selling her house. Emma is shocked because the house was designed by Charles Dilbeck, an architect she admires. She worries that someone will tear it down if it’s sold. She wishes she could buy it. She makes Finn promise not to let anyone tear it down.